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CubeSat: When designing the PID Controller of the CubeSat, what are some constraints that you need to take into account?

For a 1U CubeSat project in which we need to design the controller for it. We decided to not include any propulsion system to keep it light, we'll just essentially drop the satellite on LEO and let it ...
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How often is discrete-time control used in industry?

Although in reality I know that computers handle all systems in discrete time, in my limited industry work experience I've only used continuous-time control system analysis/standard frequency domain ...
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Sensor fusion for IMU

I'm working with MPU-6050 sensor with Raspberry Pi 4. I can read acceleration and gyroscope raw data from the sensor. However I want to get yaw, pitch and roll angles from these data. I tried to ...
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Aircraft Longitudinal and Lateral Transfer Function Terms

The figure shows input and output variables for both longitudinal and lateral stability transfer functions. I completely understand what each term stands for but I was wondering what would be the ...
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Closed loop guidance and control: how to tune a system with multiple feedback controllers?

I'm trying to design a closed-loop guidance system for rockets - something that can be implemented in Kerbal Space Program, for example. To do this, I'm following the design process described in ...
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How to design the right input to obtain a desired output for a linear system?

If I have a state-space model, so that matrices $A$, $B$, $C$ and $D$ are known, how can I design the right input $u$, so that $y$ is a desired signal, say, a sine wave with constant amplitude? $$\...
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Given Pitch and Roll in one Heading, convert to co-planar pitch and roll for North

I have been pouring through countless articles about Euler's angles, rotation matrices, Rodriguez Rotation Formula, Quaternions, trying to understand how to generate an algorithm for this problem and ...
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